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Even if you don't personally believe in any religion, it's useful for a society to formally acknowledge an authority that's greater than the individuals to whom
by mbg721 5y ago
Even if you don't personally believe in any religion, it's useful for a society to formally acknowledge an authority that's greater than the individuals to whom it gives political power.
- avs733 5y ago> it's useful for a society to formally acknowledge an authority that's greater than the individuals to whom it gives political power. yes, as you noted...that higher authority is society not god. The concept of god is an attempt to impute one's/a group's morals on a society
- ironmagma 5y agoThe problem is, you can’t poll society every time you need to decide the correct moral that applies. So you have to use your judgment, or in other words, ask yourself (aka be creative, effectively what asking God would accomplish assuming God doesn’t really exist).
- mbg721 5y agoBut societies that deny God end up with a god anyway, and impute their morals on society anyway. I'd much rather have the higher authority be explicitly contemptuous of the head of state.
- williamtrask 5y agoSo is voting
- anigbrowl 5y agoThat just gives political power to people who purport to speak on behalf of this 'authority', some of whose motives or reasoning are highly questionable.
- mbg721 5y agoPeople with highly-questionable motives and reasoning inevitably show up anyway. If they have to concede that God is somebody besides themselves, then their armor has instant cracks.
- anigbrowl 5y agoI think you need to watch more televangelists cause they seem to be doing great :-/
- justinclift 5y agoDoesn't seem to really work that way. Instead, they claim that <whatever they actually want to do next> is what their $deity has revealed must be done.